I'm pretty sure he hoards stacks of old photos, then he filters them through Google Lens, and anything that comes up as any sort of "similarity" gets set to the side, and then he proceeds to craft a story and apply his pseudo photo recognition filters to his listings.
Gotta hand it to the guy, he's not afraid of doing the work...even if it is 95% faulty.
I think Yogi Berra might have said one time: "100% of all provenance claims, is 80% made up".
